What medical and pharmaceutical/bioscience/medical device meeting planners and continuing medical education professionals need to know to plan meetings and CME activities for healthcare professionals.
The Harvard Medical School’s Faculty of Medicine Committee on Conflicts of Interest issued a report last month on its review of the school’s 20-year-old COI policy. The policy, according to the report, seeks to reinforce the “essential principle...
The Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education’s Board of Directors voted at its July meeting to approve a revised process for handling complaints regarding ACCME-accredited providers. The revisions, which were proposed in an effort...
A new site focused on smartphone apps for meeting professionals has just launched at MeetingApps.com. The portal, listing about 500 apps, was created by Kirsten Strand, CMP, CITE, CMM, CEO at Invenia, a Vancouver, British Columbia–based site...
Technology forecaster and business strategist Daniel Burrus believes that meeting planners who aren’t developing mobile technology apps (short for applications) are making a big mistake. Mobile apps are the future, he says. And, oh, by the way, t...
Strategic meetings management has been a recurring theme at the National Business Travel Association International Convention and Exposition, which opened Sunday in Houston...
Early this month, the United Arab Emirates, home of meeting, convention, and incentive destinations Dubai and Abu Dhabi, announced that it would shut down BlackBerry data service on October 11 if an agreement isn’t reached that allows the country...
Be sure to make time to play tourist while at the American Society of Association Executives Annual Meeting & Exposition in Los Angeles August 21–24. There are few convention cities that offer the kind of recreation and attractions that L.A...
